Other Publications

 


 

Forthcoming Articles
 
(feel free to request current versions)

 

“On the Non-Globalization of Ideas” and

(with Andrew Sartori) “Approaches to Global Intellectual History,”

in Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori, eds.,

Global Intellectual History

(New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming)

 

“Imaginary Intellectual History” and

(with Darrin M. McMahon) “Preface: Interim Intellectual History,”

in Darrin M. McMahon and Samuel Moyn, eds.,

Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History for the 21st Century

(New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

 

“Afterword: The Self-Evidence of Enlightenment Rights,”

in Kate E. Tunstall, ed.,

Self-Evident Truths?: The Enlightenment and Human Rights

(Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2010)

(Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming)

 

“John Locke on Intervention, Uncertainty, and Insurgency,”

in Stefano Recchia and Jennifer Welsh, eds.,

Modern Classics and Military Intervention

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)

 

“To Wipe the Slate Clean” (on Jonathan Littell),

Yale French Studies, forthcoming

 

 “Intellectuals and Nazism,”

in Dan Stone, ed.,

Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History

(New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

 

“René Cassin, Human Rights, and Jewish Internationalism,”

in Jacques Picard et al., eds.

Thinking Jewish Modernity

(forthcoming)

 

“Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division,”

Constellations

(Claude Lefort Memorial Issue),

forthcoming

 
 
Published Scholarly Articles

 

on human rights history

 

“Imperialism, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Human Rights,”

in Akira Iriye et al., eds.,

The Human Rights Revolution: An International History

(New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)

 

“The First Historian of Human Rights,”

American Historical Review,

116, 1 (February 2011): 58-79

 

Personalism, Community, and the Origins of Human Rights,”

in Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, ed.,

A History of Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011);

German version: “Personalismus, Gemeinschaft und die Ursprünge der Menschenrechte,”

in Hoffmann, ed., Moralpolitik: Geschichte der Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert

(Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2010)

 

“Jacques Maritain: le origini dei diritti umani e il pensiero politico cristiano,

in Luigi Bonanate and Roberto Papini, eds.,

Dialogo interculturale e diritti umani:

La Dichiarazione Universale dei Diritti Umani,

Genesi, evoluzione, e problemi odierni (1948-2008)

(Bologna: Il Mulino, 2008), 97-124

(available in English here)

 

“Empathy in History, Empathizing with Humanity,”

History & Theory 45, 3 (October 2006), 397-415

 

on twentieth-century French political thought

 

“The Politics of Individual Rights: Marcel Gauchet and Claude Lefort,”

in Raf Geenens and Helena Rosenblatt, eds.,

French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)

 

“The Assumption by Man of His Original Fracturing:

Marcel Gauchet, Gladys Swain, and the History of the Self,”

Modern Intellectual History 6, 2 (August 2009): 315-41

 

“On the Intellectual Origins of François Furet’s Masterpiece,”

La Revue Tocqueville/The Tocqueville Review 29, 2 (Fall 2008): 59-78

 

“Marxism and Alterity:

Claude Lefort and the Critique of Totality,”

in Warren Breckman et al., eds.,

The Modernist Imagination:

Intellectual History and Critical Theory

(Essays in Honor of Martin Jay)

(New York: Berghahn Books, 2008), 99-116

 

“Intellectual History and Democracy” (introduction),

Journal of the History of Ideas 68, 4 (October 2007): 701-2

 

Antitotalitarianism and After,”

introduction to Pierre Rosanvallon, Democracy Past and Future, ed. Samuel Moyn

(New York: Columbia University Press, 2006)

 

“Savage and Modern Liberty:

Marcel Gauchet and the Origins of New French Thought,”

European Journal of Political Theory 4, 2 (April 2005): 164-87

 

“Of Savagery and Civil Society:

Pierre Clastres and the Transformation of French Political Thought,”

Modern Intellectual History 1, 1 (April 2004): 55-80

 

(with Andrew Jainchill)

“French Democracy between Totalitarianism and Solidarity:

Pierre Rosanvallon and Revisionist Historiography,”

Journal of Modern History 76, 1 (March 2004): 107-54

 

on Holocaust memory

 

“Bearing Witness: Theological Sources of a New Secular Morality,”

in Dan Stone, ed.,

The Holocaust and Historical Methodology

(New York: Berghahn Books, 2012)

 

“Preface,” in

Chil Rajchman,

The Last Jew of Treblinka: A Memoir (New York: Pegasus, 2011), and

Treblinka: A Survivor’s Memory (London: Maclehose, 2011)

 

“In the Aftermath of Camps,”

in Frank Biess and Robert Moeller, eds.,

Histories of the Aftermath:

The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe

(New York: Berghahn Books, 2010)

 

Antisemitism, Philosemitism, and the Rise of Holocaust Memory,”

Patterns of Prejudice 43, 1 (February 2009): 1-16

 

“From l’Univers Concentrationnaire to the Jewish Genocide:

Pierre Vidal-Naquet and the Treblinka Affair,”

in Julian Bourg, ed.,

After the Deluge:

New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France

(Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2004), pp. 277-99

 

“Two Regimes of Memory”

(response to Omer Bartov’s forum essay),

American Historical Review 103, 4 (October 1998): 1182-86

 

on the history of history

 

“Amos Funkenstein on the Theological Origins of Historicism,”

Journal of the History of Ideas 64, 4 (October 2003): 639-57,

rpt. with revisions in David Biale and Robert Westman, eds.,

Thinking Impossibilities: The Legacy of Amos Funkenstein

(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), 143-66

 

“Metaphorically Speaking:

Hans Blumenberg, Giambattista Vico, and the Problem of Origins,”

Qui Parle 12, 1 (Spring/Summer 2000): 55-76

 

                  on modern Jewish thought

 

“The Spirit of Jewish History,”

in Zachary Braiterman, Martin Kavka and David Novak, eds.,

The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy:

The Modern Era

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)

 

“Hannah Arendt on the Secular,”

New German Critique 105 (Fall 2008): 71-96

Special Issue: Political Theology, ed. Nitzan Lebovic

 

“From Experience to Law:

Leo Strauss and the Weimar Crisis of the Philosophy of Religion,”

History of European Ideas 33, 2 (June 2007): 174-94

 

“Reply,”

H-France Review, Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 89

(to Nathan Bracher’s review of my book Origins of the Other on the same site)

 

“Is Revelation in the World?”

Jewish Quarterly Review 96, 3 (Summer 2006): 396-403

 

“Divine and Human Love: Franz Rosenzweig’s History of the Song of Songs,”

Jewish Studies Quarterly 12, 2 (June 2005): 194-212

 

“Emmanuel Levinas’s Talmudic Readings: Between Tradition and Invention,”

Prooftexts 23, 3 (Fall 2003): 338-64

 

“Transcendence, Morality and History:

Emmanuel Levinas and the Discovery of Søren Kierkegaard in Interwar France,”

Yale French Studies 104 (Fall 2003): 22-54

(Special Issue: “Encounters with Levinas,” ed. Thomas Trezise)

 

“Deformation and Appropriation:

Dana Villa’s Construction of the Arendt-Heidegger Relationship,”

Critical Sense 5, 1 (Spring 1997)

 

“Judaism against Paganism:

Emmanuel Levinas’s Response to Heidegger and Nazism in the 1930s,”

History & Memory 10, 1 (Spring/Summer 1998): 25-58

 

“German Jewry and the Question of Identity:

Historiography and Theory,”

Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 41 (1996): 291-308

 

                  on existentialism

 

“Anxiety and Secularization:

Søren Kierkegaard and the Twentieth-Century Invention of Existentialism,”

in Robert Bernasconi and Jonathan Judaken, eds.,

Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Context

(New York: Columbia University Press, 2012)

(with Azzan Yadin)

“The Creaturely Limits of Knowledge:

Martin Heidegger, Immanuel Kant, and Weimar Theological Pessimism,”

in Leonard V. Kaplan and Rudy Koshar, eds.,

The Weimar Moment: Political Theology, Liberalism, and the Law

(Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012)

 

                  on John Locke

 

“Appealing to Heaven:

Jephthah, John Locke, and Just War,”

Hebraic Political Studies 4, 3 (Summer 2009): 286-303

 

Encyclopedia Entries

 

Alterität,”

in Dan Diner, ed.,

Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur

(Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, forthcoming)

 

“Jewish and Christian Philosophy of History,”

in Aviezer Tucker, ed.,

A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography

(New York: Blackwell, 2008)

 

“Existentialism,” “Jürgen Habermas,” and “Leszek Kolakowski,”

in John Merriman and Jay Winter, eds.,

Encyclopedia of Europe, 1914-2004

(New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2006)

 

Academic Book Reviews

 

 

American Historical Review (three times: 112/4 [October 2007]: 1270-71, 113/2 [April 2008]: 469-70, and 115/2 [April 2009]: 488-91)

Canadian Journal of History (43/2 [Autumn 2008]: 364-66)

Central European History (twice: 40/1 [March 2007]: 148-50 and 43/2 [June 2010]: 352-54)

Constellations (16/2 [June 2009]: 351-52)

Critical Sense (twice: 4/1 [Spring 1996]: 149-55 and 5/1 [Spring 1997])

Ethics and International Affairs (four times: 15/1 [Spring 2001]: 192-94; 16/2 [Fall 2002]: 135-42; 18/2 [Fall 2004]: 93-99; and 19/3 [Fall 2005]: 110-13)

The European Legacy (12/4 [July 2007]: 519-20)

German Politics and Society (twice: 15/2 [Summer 1997]: 28-32 and 15/4 [Winter 1997]: 152-55)

H-France Review (5 [September 2005], no. 104)

H-Judaic (April 1999)

Holocaust and Genocide Studies (21, 1 [Spring 2007]: 148-51)

International History Review (forthcoming)

Journal of Genocide Research (3/1 [March 2001]: 139-41)

Journal of Modern History (three times: 77/4 [December 2005]: 1121-23, 81/3 [September 2009]: 697-98 and 81/4 [December 2009]: 932-35)

The Sixties (1/1 [June 2008]: 93-96)

Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions (1/3 [Winter 2000]: 100-106)